Calvin Luther Martin

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

A.E. ASTIN, F.W. WALBANK, M.W. FREDERIKSEN, and R.M. OGILVIE, eds. The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume VIII: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C., 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 625. $39.50 (US), cloth; $11.95 (US), paper.Reviewed by Keith R. Bradley

A meditation by an award-winning historian calls for a new way of looking at the natural world and our place in it while boldly challenging the assumptions that underlie the way we teach and think about both history and time. "In the Spirit of the Earth" is a provocative account of how the hunter-gatherer image of nature was lost with devastating c...

For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism--the triumph of progress. But recently, a new school of historians has challenged this view, creating what is known as the "new western history," an approach that gives a central role to the environment, native peoples, and the concentr...

"God"-read the brass buttons on the Indian police uniforms, "God helps those who help themselves" (p. 61). The picture stamped on the button showed what was intended to be an Indian farmer diligently turning the earth "wrong side up" (p. 57) behind a horse-drawn plow. Thrift, hard work, individualism, promise of a better life, the great American my...

The writing of Indian-White history is impaired because Angloamerican historians in general have not familiarized themselves with the mythic world of North American Indians. In our historiography we tend either to project our thoughtworld onto the past or to accept and perpetuate that of contemporary White commentators, and in doing so we seriously...

ent theoretical and methodological orientations, with the predictable result that the Indian emerged as two different individuals. "There are two Indians of history," recently mused an eminent anthropologist: "one is the Indian of ethnology; the other, the Indian of recent history. The first is the Indian of cultural elements: the snowshoe, puberty...

What to the seventeenth-century French was little more than a mundane article of commerce became, to the Acadian Micmac, an institution with noteworthy economic, ceremonial, spiritual, and demographic connotations. Utilizing portable kettles, Micmac households became less inclined to camp near their immobile wooden cauldrons which now served a dimi...